Is there no limit?

Witnesses saw him hit her three times in the face.
The judge dismissed the charges. She might have
wanted it, he said.

Once again Bush has asked for billions more for his "war" in Iraq (you can't be a real President, you know, unless you have a war). He's a "war President." Now, let's see, I saw somewhere the other day that one estimate for Bush/Cheny's little adventure in the Middle East was somewhere in the vicinity of more than two trillion dollars. Let's say it's only one trillion dollars. Does that mean anything to you? My feeble brain simply can't really understand a trillion dollars but I know it's a lot of money. A real lot of money. I know that that much money if used here at home would do a great deal of good. You know, health care, superstructure, education, stuff like that. But, now that we've presumably spent at least a trillion, and perhaps more than that, I would like to know: is there any limit to how much we are willing to spend on this ridiculous business? This is a question I have long wondered about in entirely different contexts. Like, for example, the price of beer. If you are used to paying fifty cents for a beer and then they raise the price to sixty cents you have to decide whether it's worth it or not. Then it goes to seventy-five cents, wow! That's a lot. But, what the hell, it's beer, so you pay it. But what determines when it reaches the point you are just no longer willing to pay? Is there some formula for this? Certainly you don't go on paying more and more forever. But that is what we are apparently willing to do for our ongoing "war" with Iraq. Congress just caves in to Bush/Cheney's outrageous demands for more money time after time. So when, if ever, do they intend to stop? And if they know they will someday have to stop, why not stop now? Bush/Cheney and the Congress seem to have lost any connection between money and behavior, money and reality. You recall Cheney announced early in this dismal administration that "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." I guess Congress really believes this. How else can you explain their seemingly blase attitude towards money? Remember, we shipped tons of money to Iraq in bundles of one hundred dollar bills. Billions just disappeared. The Pentagon has lost billions with no idea where it went. But they still ask for more - and get it. I don't get it. I hope someone will be available to explain to our grandchildren why it is they owe so much money when they weren't even born when it was spent. Bush/Cheney don't care, they'll be dead then. Ha ha ha. Suckers.

It appears that Giuliani is about to be exposed for the absolute phony he is. All his talk about 9/11 and how he understood it all, and blah, blah, blah, seems to have been just that. In private interviews that have been prematurely leaked he admits he knew virtually nothing about any of it. What a jerk.

Obama seems to be going from bad to worse and falling further and further behind. Edwards lurks in the background sort of like an invisible man. Hillary is far ahead but she may be making a terrible mistake in being so hawkish. She seems to just go along with Bush/Cheney's insanity when it comes to Iran and Israel. I don't understand this as the American public is so totally fed up with war I wouldn't think an intelligent candidate would be publicly so big on it. But what do I know? Being hawkish may be what will convince the corporations she's just right for the job, if they haven't already decided that. Hillary Rodham Clinton, closet Republican.

Anyone remember Israel? You know, that little country in the Middle East that is now about to cut off electricity to Gaza. Having not caused enough misery there the new plan is going to accelerate the misery. Remember Gaza? That's where the democratically elected Hamas government is located. Remember democracy? After seven years of almost total neglect, except for uncritical support of Israeli apartheid, Bush thinks he's going to arrange peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. Hamas is not going to be invited to participate. It probably doesn't matter because most of the other invited countries probably won't participate either. Bush is the lamest of lame ducks and has no credibility whatsoever. So why should they bother now to listen to anything he says? So they won't and don't. I think they recognize dementia when they see it. By the way, have the Blackguards left Iraq yet? No. I didn't think so. Maybe when they feel like it.

LKBIQ:
"Anyone who acts as if freedom's defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confesses a doctrine that is alien to America."
Dwight D. Eisenhower